User Experience Strategist

At Children's Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.

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Children's Wisconsin is seeking a Senior User Experience Strategist who is passionate about improving care for kids and families. In this role, you'll leverage research, empathy, and human-centered design to create clear, compassionate, and impactful experiences across our healthcare system, ensuring every interaction is meaningful, intuitive, and supportive for patients, families, and care teams.

Location: Remote (occasional onsite presence as needed, must be local to Milwaukee.)

What you will do:

Leads the research and design of human-centered experiences across the healthcare system, serving families, staff, community partners, and referring providers. This role acts as a strategic discovery engine-both uncovering new opportunities for innovation and validating that organizational efforts address the right problems. Success is defined by the ability to bridge the gap between "what" is happening and "why" it is happening; this is achieved by synthesizing quantitative metrics with deep qualitative insights to identify root issues and develop effective solutions with leadership.

Essential Functions

- Leads comprehensive research studies (interviews, focus groups, surveys) to uncover improvement opportunities across family, staff, community, and provider experiences.
- Facilitates design thinking workshops and strategy sessions with healthcare leaders to identify root causes of complex issues and co-develop actionable solutions.
- Creates high-quality journey and service maps, behavioral segmentations, and service playbooks that illustrate the interplay between people and healthcare processes.
- Leads end-to-end design projects ensuring clinical, operational, and digital initiatives align with the needs of patients, families, and providers.
- Synthesizes multiple data sources to provide the "why" behind quantitative metrics, translating complex findings into compelling narratives and next steps for leadership.
- Partners with clinical and operational teams to provide targeted discovery and intervention strategies for areas with underperforming experience metrics.
What you will need:
Education:

- Bachelor's Degree in related field required (such as HCI, Service Design, Psychology, Ethnography) required or relevant experience

Experience:

- 5+ years of experience leading complex experience research and design projects required
- Healthcare experience preferred
- Experience organizing and running user research studies independently in a complex organizational environment required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Proficiency in design thinking, service design, and qualitative research methodologies to lead system-wide experience improvements.
- Ability to translate complex data into narratives and visual frameworks that help senior leadership make strategic decisions.
- Advanced skills in independent problem-solving and decision-making that influence healthcare and experience strategy.
- Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills to lead cross-functional teams in applying human-centered design methodologies.

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- This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be requested in the performance of this job.

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

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